Bowkes Talking Bouts (w/ Dylan Bowker): Episode 32 - Gurdarshan Mangat

May 28, 2021 · 29m 10s
Bowkes Talking Bouts (w/ Dylan Bowker): Episode 32 - Gurdarshan Mangat
Description

Gurdarshan Mangat is coming off of a unanimous decision victory over Roshan Mainam. This took place at ONE Dangal and Mangat re-entered the ONE Championship win column. Gurdarshan Mangat came...

show more
Gurdarshan Mangat is coming off of a unanimous decision victory over Roshan Mainam. This took place at ONE Dangal and Mangat re-entered the ONE Championship win column.

Gurdarshan Mangat came on BTB to cover several subjects including:

-Having a level of kinship with Roshan Mainam and fighting someone he has mentored
-ONE Dangal and the culturally significant event presentation for Indian MMA
-Giving a level of reprieve with this event to the people of India during the tragic COVID-19 surge
-The dynamics of being coy about the victory since ONE Dangal was a pre-recorded card
-Creating his own little world inside the ONE Championship bubble
-Demetrious Johnson playing a key role in Mangat signing with ONE Championship
-The last fight being a catchweight and Mangat's long term future at flyweight
-Vitor Belfort being an enormous inspiration for getting him out of a dark spot and saving his life
-His profound meeting with Belfort at a ONE retreat that was a quarter-century in the making
-Rich Franklin turning Gurdarshan Mangat onto the idea of competing in mixed martial arts
-The long road from the local college pankration tournaments in basketball shorts
-His drastic life switch from accounting to fighting professionally in his early twenties
-Getting in work out of Revolution Fight Team with ONE bantamweight champ Bibiano Fernandes
-Mangat's appreciation for hip hop and the recent love he's developing for EDM
show less
Information
Author MMA Power Hour
Organization MMA Power Hour
Website -
Tags

Looks like you don't have any active episode

Browse Spreaker Catalogue to discover great new content

Current

Podcast Cover

Looks like you don't have any episodes in your queue

Browse Spreaker Catalogue to discover great new content

Next Up

Episode Cover Episode Cover

It's so quiet here...

Time to discover new episodes!

Discover
Your Library
Search